Re: A must-see for anybody on this list

[David Kastrup]

Joseph Rushton Wakeling <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02/14/2013 01:36 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
>> a) a reliable and scaleable mechanism to make individual problems go
>> away by manual labor.  WYSIWYG systems offer that.  I think that
>> Frescobaldi tries offering a bit of that as well.
>
> The really simple way of putting this: "It needs to be as easy as
> possible to tweak stuff where you don't like the automatic results."
>
> From a publisher point of view I think also ease of creating a "house
> style" probably plays a large part.  I don't personally find it very
> easy to create something like a "style sheet" for LP.
>
>> Sibelius has thrown away mechanism b) by dismissing their development
>> team.  Its problems are there to stay, but you can fix up a lot of them
>> manually.
>
> They closed down the longstanding UK-based development and R&D team,
> but it's a bit of a stretch to say that they will no longer be
> offering commercial development support on Sibelius -- they're forming
> a new development team in Ukraine.  It may not be as high quality as
> it was previously.

Uh, they fired the original developers and their team without much of a
migration strategy.  It is unlikely that substantial new developments
are planned, or this would have been an economically stupid course.

-- 
David Kastrup